Install Anaconda Python Distribution for all users on RHEL/CentOS 7

First install bzip2 and wget if you do not have those yet

sudo yum install bzip2 wget

Download the last Anaconda installer for your environment: https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/

cd ~/Downloads
wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-4.5.12-Linux-x86_64.sh

Run it with sudo privileges

sudo sh Miniconda3-4.5.12-Linux-x86_64.sh

The installer will then begin and proceed with a series of questions.

Do you accept the license terms? [yes|no]
 [no] >>>
 Please answer 'yes' or 'no':'
 >>> yes

Anaconda3 will now be installed into this location:
 /root/miniconda3

- Press ENTER to confirm the location
 - Press CTRL-C to abort the installation
 - Or specify a different location below

[/root/anaconda3] >>> /usr/local/miniconda3
 PREFIX=/usr/local/miniconda3

I will NOT risk to prepend the Anaconda install location to PATH in your /root/.bashrc

All users have now access to Anaconda through:

• conda - /usr/local/miniconda3/bin/conda
• python - /usr/local/miniconda3/bin/python

You can install new packages with through the conda command line tool

sudo /usr/local/miniconda3/bin/conda install -c anaconda pip

And or with pip

sudo /usr/local/miniconda3/bin/pip install flask

Let’s update the Python packages

sudo /usr/local/miniconda3/bin/conda upgrade --all -y

Remove unused packages

sudo /usr/local/miniconda3/bin/conda clean --yes --all

A bunch of useful commands

List the previous versions of your conda environment

conda list --revisions

Rollback your environment to a specific previous version

conda install --revision 18

Install all required packages listed in a requirements.txt file

while read requirement; do conda install --yes $requirement; done < requirements.txt

Uninstall all unused packages in a conda virtual environment

conda clean --yes --all